National Security and Defense Council: Lugansk is practically surrounded

In Lugansk there are positional battles, the city is practically surrounded. This was stated by the speaker of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Andrei Lysenko, reports League. NOT. According to him, the final stage of the anti -terrorist operation began in Donetsk.

This stage will not take a day or two, Lysenko emphasized . The militants have accumulated a lot of weapons, including armored vehicles and artillery. Government forces will not use aviation and heavy weapons in residential quarters, said the representative of the National Security and Defense Council.

Lysenko also denied reports of serious losses incurred by the Aidar battalion. “Information about large losses is an element of information struggle,” he said.

Over the past day, the Ukrainian military took control of three more cities - Chernukhino in the Lugansk fiction and Bulavinskoye and Aleksandrovskoye in Donetsk, according to the ATO press center. "The forces of the ATO come and end the environment of the militants' detachments in Lugansk. Positional battles continue near Donetsk, Lugansk, Gorlovka, Ilovaysk, Pervomaisk, Red Ray," the message said.

On Tuesday, it was reported that Ukrainian government forces freed four settlements in the Donbass - Pervomaisk, Kamyshevakha, Kalinovo and Ugledar.

“In connection with the advance of the Ukrainian military in the east of the country, conflicts were aggravated between various gangs of terrorists for lack of weapons, ammunition, provisions and means of communications,” Lysenko said. “So, in the Donetsk region, militants of the so -called Oplot group, subordinate to the field commander, fired at the carriageway with wounded militants The people's liberation movement, which is controlled by the field leader, nicknamed the Greek. "

On the morning of August 9, the Ukrainian security forces took control of the city of Red Ray in the Lugansk region, as a result of Donetsk and Gorlovka, they were in full environment .